Bus, hospital bombed in Pak

KARACHI, Pakistan – Suspected Sunni militants bombed a bus moving Shiite worshippers and 2 hours later attacked a hospital treating the victims, killing 25 people and 100 injured on Friday in a hit on Pakistan's largest city.

The blasts in the city of Karachi were the latest sign of the instability tearing at the nuclear-armed nation, which the US regards as key to its hopes of defeating an interrelated Taliban insurgency across the boundary in Afghanistan. No group claimed responsibility, but Pakistan is home to lots of al-Qaida-linked Sunni extremist groups with a history of offensive Shiites.

The first bomb embattled a bus carrying worshippers, most of them women and children, killing 12 and injuring 49, officials said. The bomb was attached to a motorcycle with detonated as the bus to an Arbaeen procession, witnesses said.

The second bomb exploded outer the way in to the emergency ward at Jinnah Hospital, which was filled with victims and relatives of those killed and injured in the earlier attack. It was also hidden on a motorbike or in or near to an ambulance, a witness and a government official said. Provincial health minister Dr. Sagheer Ahmad said 13 citizens were killed in that blast and 50 injured. Bomb disposal squad official Munir Sheikh said a third bomb was later defused in the parking lot of the hospital.

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